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A tight-supply, appreciation-lean market. The rent math runs thin; demand and tenant incomes are the story.
What would change this read: a price correction (median already −10.8% YoY) or rent growth lifting rent-to-price toward 0.8%/mo would move this ZIP toward a cash-flow story. inventory, +31.3% YoY, is the number to watch.
The median listing price is down 10.8% YoY while the median home got up 1.0% bigger, so value per square foot is down 9.2%.
Min/max come from the active-listing pool; the median comes from Realtor's separate listing set — the two are not subsets of each other, so the median's position relative to the tiles above should not be read literally.
At the median, a $1.65M purchase rents for $3,495/mo: 0.21% of price per month against the 1% rule's 1.00%.
Not shown: 6 BR (sale only, no matching rent), 7 BR (sale only, no matching rent).
Sales here take about 32 days longer to go under contract than rentals (median across 4 property types).
Not shown: Apartment (rented here, not sold), Land (sold here, not rented), Manufactured (sold here, not rented).
U.S. Census ACS characteristics for ZIP 95125 itself, not its parent county.
Renters hold 38.9% of this ZIP's 20,779 occupied households, on a median household income of $161K.
| Measure | ZIP 95125 | Santa Clara County | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Median Household Income | $161K | $164K | -$4K |
| Below Poverty Level | 6.2% | 7.1% | -0.9% |
| Median Age | 41.00 | 38.10 | +2.90 |
| Total Population | 54,419 | 1,902,047 | -- |
| Avg Household Size | 2.58 | 2.82 | -0.24 |
| Owner-Occupied | 61.1% | 55.1% | +6.1% |
| Worked From Home | 26.5% | 23.9% | +2.6% |
| Mean Commute | 26.00 | 26.20 | -0.20 |
Higher or lower is not itself good or bad — it describes the neighborhood, not the investment.
ZIP-level figures come from ZIP Code Tabulation Areas, which approximate but do not exactly match USPS ZIP codes. A missing value is suppressed or unavailable at this sample size, not zero. Estimates for 2019–2020 use the 2010 ZCTA boundaries and 2021–2024 the 2020 ones, so a step between those two years may be a boundary change rather than real movement.
County population is down 0.1% to 1,902,047: residents under 18 are down 2.2% and those 65 and over are up 3.0%.
County median household income is $164K, 7.1% of residents are below the poverty level, 23.9% work from home.